It's just a figure of speech!
A type of irony when someone states something that is completely the opposite of the truth. For example, saying, "what beautiful weather we're having" during a snow storm.
What is sarcasm/verbal irony.
This root means water. It might be combined with -ponics, -ation, -phobia
What is hydro?
I was met with DERISION when I stated my argument, people laughed in my face.
What is mockery or ridicule?
The first sentence of paragraph 1 suggests that Roosevelt will give them:
Encouraging OR Honest words?
Honest - "candor/the whole truth, frankly and boldly"
The assistant was as busy as a bee when she was preparing the podium for the presidential address.
What is a simile?
The literary term in "Juliet is the sun."
What is a metaphor?
What is bio?
I always liked being around her, she seemed like an AMIABLE person.
What is kind, friendly?
In paragraph 1, is Roosevelt arguing that...
People should learn to master their fear OR that fear can keep people from action?
Fear can keep people from action- "unjustified terror that which paralyzes needed efforts"
What is a metaphor?
The lightning boomed above my head.
What is onomatopoeia?
This root means farming. It might be combined with -business, -culturalist, -chemical.
What is agri?
They had TEMPESTUOUS relationship that battled between love and hate.
What is stormy or unpredictable?
In paragraph 3, Roosevelt is arguing that...
Things are NOT as bad as they seem or they ARE as bad as they seem?
They ARE as bad as they seem "only a foolish optimist can deny the dark realities of the moment"
Literary term in "Death, be not proud."
What is personification?
The literary term in, "O wandering water ever whispering?"
What is alliteration?
This root means earth. It might be combine with -ittory, -form, -cotta
What is terra?
There was complete BEDLAM in the kindergarten room when the class pet escaped.
What is mayhem or chaos?
Paragraph 4
A literary term to describe "we are stricken by no plague of locusts"
What is an allusion?
Flowers are often used as _________________ to describe women. This term includes not only comparisons but also imagery.
What is an analogy.
The literary term in "You snore like a freight train."
What is hyperbole?
This root means one. It might be combine with -tone, -chrome, or -log
What is mono?
She left the sand dollars out in the sun to DESSICATE.
What is to dry up?
Describe the request Roosevelt is making in Paragraph 7 by filling in these blanks.
People should________________ not ______________.
People should work for what they have, not spend their time chasing wealth.
The literary term that describes this sentence: In Beauty and the Beast, Gaston is the character who exhibits a beastly, vicious nature.
Irony